Country United Kingdom Squadron Badge heraldry A leopard rampant. | Branch Royal Air Force | |
Active 1 Mar 1918 – 23 Dec 1918
7 Jul 1941 – 15 April 1946 Motto(s) Latin: Cave leopardum
("Beware the leopard") Squadron Codes FF (Jul 1941 – Apr 1946) | ||
No. 132 (City of Bombay) Squadron RAF was a Royal Air Force Squadron formed to be a bomber unit in World War I and reformed as a fighter unit in World War II.
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Formation and World War I
No. 132 Squadron Royal Flying Corps was formed on 1 March 1918 and became a unit of the Royal Air Force a month later, but it disbanded on 23 December 1918 without becoming operational.
Reformation in World War II
The squadron reformed in 1941 as a fighter unit equipped with Spitfires and then provided air defence from Peterhead, Scotland, and Southern England. It then moved to Normandy after the D-Day landings. It returned to England in September 1944 before moving to Vavuniya, Ceylon, in January 1945. It was then based in Hong Kong, and was disbanded on 15 April 1946.
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